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Uncommon or Extinct Birds

The following bird species do not occur in Missouri every year. The majority are detected once or twice every few years. Some (*) have been recorded fewer than five times throughout the state's history.

Red-throated Loon

Pacific Loon

Yellow-billed Loon*

Red-necked Grebe

Band-rumped Storm-Petrel*

Brown Pelican*

Neotropic Cormorant

Anhinga

Magnificent Frigatebird*

Tricolored Heron

White Ibis

Glossy Ibis

White-faced Ibis

Roseate Spoonbill*

Wood Stork

Fulvous Whistling-Duck

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck*

Brant

Barnacle Goose*

Garganey*

Eurasian Wigeon

Harlequin Duck*

Barrow's Goldeneye

Swallow-tailed Kite*

White-tailed Kite*

Northern Goshawk

Harris Hawk*

Ferruginous Hawk

Gyrfalcon*

Prairie Falcon

Gray Partridge

Black Rail

Purple Gallinule

Whooping Crane*

Snowy Plover

Whimbrel

Long-billed Curlew

Ruff

Red Phalarope

Pomarine Jaeger*

Parasitic Jaeger*

Long-tailed Jaeger*

Skua*

Laughing Gull

Little Gull*

Black-headed Gull*

California Gull

Iceland Gull

Lesser Black-backed Gull*

Slaty-backed Gull*

Great Black-backed Gull

Black-legged Kittiwake

Sabine's Gull

Sooty Tern*

Band-tailed Pigeon*

White-winged Dove*

Inca Dove*

Common Ground-Dove*

Groove-billed Ani

Snowy Owl

Burrowing Owl

Common Poorwill*

White-throated Swift*

Green Violetear*

Anna's Hummingbird*

Lewis' Woodpecker*

Say's Phoebe*

Vermillion Flycatcher*

Violet-green Swallow*

Gray Jay*

Clark's Nutcracker*

Black-billed Magpie*

Rock Wren*

Mountain Bluebird

Townsend's Solitaire

Varied Thrush

Sage Thrasher*

Bohemian Waxwing

Northern Shrike

Black-throated Blue Warbler

Hermit Warbler*

Kirtland's Warbler*

MacGillivray's Warbler*

Western Tanager*

Black-headed Grosbeak

Lazuli Bunting

Green-tailed Towhee

Lark Bunting

Baird's Sparrow

Black-throated Sparrow

Golden-crowned Sparrow*

McCown's Longspur

Chestnut-collared Longspur

Snow Bunting

Bronzed Cowbird*

Pine Grosbeak

Red Crossbill

White-winged Crossbill

Common Redpoll

Evening Grosbeak

Lesser Goldfinch*

Former Missouri Birds

The following bird species formerly occurred in Missouri, but are either extinct (*) or otherwise unlikely to be reported in Missouri in the future.

Regs and Areas

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